Barbara......I'm not certain we don't have two guys named Peter here but if it is all the same guy he is a big time mover-about. Bud has him (I can't recall the source but I DON'T think it was one Bud would bet the ranch on) dying in SC about 1812. I then find a Peter unquestionably the son of Meredith, Sr. in Georgia in 1809: SCREVEN COUNTY Book A-2, p. 182. 7th day of ____, 1809 Peter Poythress, of Screven County, Ga. first part, conveys to Thomas Cleaton, second part, of Macklenburg (sic) County , Va., for 43L current money of Virginia, paid to his father, Meredith Poythress, by said Cleaton, and for one cent in United States coin, paid to Peter Poythress by Thomas Cleaton, a certain tract of land in Macklenburg (sic) County, Virginia containing 50 acres by estimation. Usual Warranty In presence of: Peter Poythress (ls) Hardy Parker, James Ponder Recorded 30th day of October 1809 Roger McKinney, Clerk (looks like Peter just got skinned out of 43L by his father and grandfather < g>) At this point, Bud and I shared a skeptical observation that even if he did die in SC in 1812 he was for sure in Georgia in 1809. Now we PERHAPS have him appearing in VA enlisting for the War of 1812 in 1814, serving, and then dying in Norfolk, VA in 1815. It would not logically fall into place for him to be enlisting in Pittsylvania County . However, if he was just dying to enlist in VA and not NC, Danville by all logic would be just right over the border. Throwing out the SC death in 1812 as undocumented, it would not be totally unreasonable to speculate that Peter returns to Virginia to enlist in 1814 and dies in 1815 (KIA?). I realize you were winging it from memory when you answered Elaine on this one and will no doubt want to get back to your papers. Mitigating FOR "your" man to be Peter son of Meredith is that Peter himself appears no more in Georgia after this one 1809 document so he could easily have returned to Virginia. As we have learned, these guys were a lot more VA-GA-AL mobile than we originally expected them to be.. Also, we have Peter's brother Cleton's 1828 Screven County will in which he bequeaths something or other to each of his brothers and sisters and brother Peter is not included, perhaps suggesting that Peter did die in 1815 or, at least was not alive in 1828 or maybe alive but not even in Georgia. And if (?) wife Lilly gets land in Arkansas it might well be an award for Peter's service in War of 1812. Otherwise, we still have Lilly hanging out there in thin air and no other connection. What it strikes me that we really need is some linkage between Peter showing in VA tax records 1800-01 as son of Meredith and again in 1809 in GA AND the Peter who enlists in Pittsylvania County, VA in 1814. I would love to wrap this one together as it would wrap Peter up without any loose ends and get him out of the speculation column. Until we do make this linkage, and barring further strong circumstantial evidence that this Peter is indeed one guy and the son of Meredith, Sr., I'm inclined to agree with your origiinal comment that we make this one a "possible." Did you find anything further when you got home? Maynard in a message dated 7/10/2002 8:45:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Elaine, > > I'm travelling & don't have full info about Meredith's son Peter, but I do > have the below info, summarized as [see below for details]: > > Born about 1782 in Dinwiddie County, VA > Was residing in Mecklenburg Co, VA in 1800 & 1801 > Bricklayer > Was enlisted at Danville, [in Pittsylvania County] VA 9 Aug 1814 > Died 19 Feb 1815 Norfolk, VA > > It seems to me that, in addition to this, we've also figured out that he > was married & that his widow was named perhaps Lilly (going by memory here) > & that she got land which may have been in Arkansas -- The info about her > getting land, I think came from the (online) G.L.O., BLM records, Eastern > States Division (which, as I recall, stands for General Land Office, Bureau > of Land Management). > > I have NO marriage info for him in my database, so the above > partially-recalled additional tidbit may have just been in the catagory of > "this info seems to fit with this Peter." > > I don't recall ever learning of him having any descendants. > > Details: > He was listed twice -- in 1800 and 1801, in the "Mecklenburg County, > Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists 1782-1805" Mecklenburg County, VA; > Family History Library film 1,854,098. [Again, going by memory here: I > think both times he was listed with Meredith, as his son, though maybe only > in 1800 with Meredith as his son, and in 1801 alone maybe?) > > I've also examined Peter's "Compiled Military Service Record, War of 1812" > [which records were not yet filmed as of my review and photocopying of them > on 23 Mar 1996] National Archives, Washington, DC. Notes I made from this > Compiled Military Service Record for the War of 1812 show: > > Peter Poythress, entry # 376, in 83 Regiment (Scott's) Virginia Militia, > containing only one each card for a Muster Roll and a Company Pay Roll > record, both for July 1-6, 1813 at Petersburg, VA on rolls dated 6 Jul > 1813, indicating he was present as a Private in Capt. William H. Cousins' > Co. of Riflemen, 83 Reg't Virginia Militia, War of 1812, and that his pay, > at the rate of $8 per month, was $1.33 for 5 days, > > I also got a copy of his entry in the Register of Enlistment > [Micropublication M-233, roll 10; National Archives, Washington, DC, > "Registers of Enlistment In the U.S. Army 1798-1914, Volumes 19 & 20 (P-R), > 1798-May 17, 1815"] (comments in square brackets below are my own): > > entry # 2835 > listing him as Pothress / Poythress, Peter > rank: Rect. [Recruit?] > Regiment: 20th USI[nfantry?] > height 5'4" > Blue eyes > D[ar]k hair > Lgt [Light] complexion > age 32 > Bricklayer, occupation > born Dinwiddie [under "Town or County"], VA > enlisted Aug[us]t 9, 1814 at Danville, VA by Ens. Smith and Lt. Rawlins for > period of "War" > Remarks: "D.R.[Daily Report?] Danville, Va. Augt 1814. M.R. [Muster Roll?] > Capt. Bern'd Peyton's Co. Oct 31 /14 [1814], Pesent, sick. D.R. [Daily > Report?] Feby 16, [illegible #/letter] I.R. Norfolk, Va. Mch. 15 /15 [March > 15, 1815], Died in Reg'l Hospl [Regimental? Hospital] Feby 19 /15 > [February 19, 1815]" > > Barbara